Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-09
Loring Pasha and His Niece.


The recent death in New York Of
Gen. William Loring, the gallant old
soldier who had spent lifetime in
wars alarms and obtained the title Of
paaha during his service in Egypt VIZ
der the khediye, recalls pretty bit Of
romance in the fact that he left love
" namcsake behind him, writes vii
miugton, y. c., correspondent of the
New York STIR. This is the beautifu;
wife Of ex-senator George =. Spencer.
Of Alabama. Her maiden name was
May Nunez, but there is charming
little family romance lurking behind
the May She gave her hand TO the
Senator from Alabama in 1877 al the
church Of St. Bernard, in Washington.
where he placed a $1,000 diamond
ring on her finger. Then they left for
Deadwood. where he has large mining
interests 70 watch, and where the lady
has developed in recent years into a
strikingly strong novelist Of frontier
character.
But that story about her being Of I'm.
mixed Portuguese pedigree is all wrong.
Her mother came of good old North
Carolina stock Her maiden name
was Loring, and the romance begins
when we change this name to Nunez.
The brothers of Mrs Nunez were both
conspicuous figures In the old north
state in their time Thomas, the elder,
was founder Of the Wilmington Herald
seventy years ago, and died. after a
busy and useful career, shortly after
the war. The younger brother, vii.
liam, and his sisters fagorite, was a
Ca, ailer " the old regime, happiest in
the midst of danger. excessively fond
OF the ladies n general and of his sis
ter in particular. On one Of his trips
to friends in North Carolina Mr.. Nunez,
a Portuguese by birth, met and won
this admirable Miss Loring, and car
ried her away in triumph to set off the
beauty Of his orange groves in Florida,
where he had large possessions and
ducats galore.
This was about the time the Mexican
war broke out William Loring. the
brother to whom the new bride was so
much attached, caught The Montezuma
fever and enlisted. Whatever hard
ships he had to encounter were miti-
gated by the sisters promise that the
first child should be named for him
Alas, man proposes, but much to hi.
disappointment. the child was one Of
the kind that doesn't count, a. Mr.
Dombey remarked Of Florence.
Uncle William recovered from the
shock and fought ahead under hope.
There were soon symptoms that the
cherished wish of his heart was finally
to be @ratitcd. and under this cheerful
impression he fought so CALAMITY at
the storming Of Monterey that they
pinned a major. epaulettes 10 his
shoulders After an this glorious effort
to leave % name which amy youug>ter
might feel proud to bear. you can inn
aginc the majors shock of disgust
when he heard that number two was
also girl. All this bad tendency 10
shake the mans faith in the equities
of creation.
The major made up his mind that he
could not afford to keep on marching
into the lannon's mouth all his life on
probabilities, and so held his sister to
her promise, that 'the next one should
be named for him. And named il
was Twenty-Five years later, when
the minister called her May at the
altar, n, she bestowed her hand on
George oncer, she corrected him
with the remark that she had been
christencd William Loring-"
May, then, was simply short for
major. as William or Bill would have
been altogether de trop- Out Of re.
gard for the Youngsters beauty, the
fond old warrior grew to idolize hi.
namesakc, and as She developed int
dashing and loyable girlhood he made
her hi. special companion and protege.
He not only superintendent her educa-
ton. but took her ON long rambles
through the orient and, his particular
weakness, the holy land, which he
loved for its stirring memories of the
crusadcs. He acted, indeed as if she
did count despite that little disap
pointmcnt Of some years back.